Re: Viewing ANSI Art on Linux ?
From B Thomas <tho...@math.ohio-state.edu>
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· 10 Feb 2003 04:32 · View full thread
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Thank you for your help. Which file do you want me to upload. My console config files or ansi files. I have this problem with just about any ansi file. Oddly enough if I startup and exit the "mdraw" program available from ibiblio.org it does something to my console so that henceforth until I reboot or reset my terminal shows ansi are beautifully. I checked with "displayfont" that none of my console fonts are changed even after running "mdraw" however I can now "cat" any ansi art to the terminal and it works till such time the terminal is reset. My console configurations are the default on debian (ustable , most likely same as stable) I don't understand this. Of course I don't understand a lot :) regards B Thomas On 8 Feb 2003 12:56:07 GMT, Harry Mason <spa...@no.spam> wrote: > The Unknown Artist <unk...@artistic.se> wrote: >> On 2003-02-08 tho...@math.ohio-state.edu said: >> >> > I would like to be able to view ansi art on my linux virtual console like >> > one can on a dos console. However if I should try to 'cat' an ansi art file >> > on to the console all i see is garbage characters of some latin character >> > set. >> >> Those are the ANSI sequences, Honey. ANSI isn't a Linux thing. Your best best >> would be to download one of the many freeware DOS-based ANSI viewers, and run >> it under DOSEMU. > > Pardon? Both the Linux console and xterm support ANSI control sequences. I've > viewed ANSI art in both. > > Maybe your terminal is interpreting UTF-8, or perhaps it's set to the wrong > terminal type. Can you upload the file somewhere for other Linux users to try? >
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